.desktop files with relative icons ?

Bastian, Waldo waldo.bastian at intel.com
Tue Aug 29 10:07:02 PDT 2006


Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) said:
>On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:45:00 -0700 "Bastian, Waldo"
><waldo.bastian at intel.com>
>babbled:
>
>> Prefix with ./ sounds good:
>>
>> * If it starts with "/" it's an absolute path
>> * If it starts with "./" is's a relative path
>> * Everything else is a themed icon name
>
>you forgot ../

Yes, that's indeed useful to support. I just checked and the current KDE
implementation doesn't support ../ instead you need to use ./../

I'm inclined to stay with the behavior of the current implementation.

Cheers,
Waldo



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